58ES
PE
Poster presented at:
1. Pancreas (region of islet hyperplasia)
i. Targeted MPS hyperinsulinism panel with
mosaic variant calling programme on the
sequence data (detects variants to level of 1%)
▪ KCNJ11, ABCC8, AKT2, GLUD1, GCK, GPC3,
HADH, HNF4A, INSR, KDM6A, KMT2D,
SLC16A1, CACNA1D, PMM2, TRMT10A,
HNF1A
ii. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) array
analysis (Affymetrix Cytoscan 750K)
2. Peripheral blood and buccal cells
i. SNP array analysis
1. Pancreas
i. Targeted MPS hyperinsulinism panel
▪ maternal ABCC8 variant that was identified
in blood was again detected, but only in a
small number of reads with skewed allelic
frequency → suggesting mosaicism
ii. SNP array analysis
▪ mosaic loss of heterozygosity (LOH) was
observed for chromosome 11
▪ observed pattern suggested high-level
mosaicism for a cell line with whole-
chromosome isodisomic UPD for
chromosome 11, as well as a normal
biparental cell line
▪ Trio analysis suggested the UPD to be
paternal in origin (isodisomic UPD11 pat)
▪ a mosaic gain of one copy of chromosome
12 was also detected, consistent with
mosaic trisomy 12 (mosaicism level 50%)
2. Peripheral blood and buccal cells
i. SNP array analysis
▪ no mosaic paternal uniparental disomy
(pUPD) or trisomy 12 identified (cannot
exclude low-level mosaicism of <10%)
Results
ConclusionsPancreatic mosaicism for pUPD11
▪ Most likely cause of CHI
▪ With 2 cardinal BWSp features
• hyperinsulinism >1 week duration, escalating
treatment and pancreatic adenomatosis
the BWS clinical diagnosis is met1
▪ In BWSp, pUPD11 predicts a high risk for Wilms
tumour and hepatoblastoma, with 3-monthly
ultrasound recommended for 7 years1
▪ α-fetoprotein screening is debated1,2
▪ Even in the absence of overt 11p overgrowth
features, BWSp due to pUPD11 should be
considered if
• persistent, severe CHI without an identified
pathogenic KATP-channel mutation(s)
• large focal pancreatic lesions
(with/without a KATP mutation) or
• atypical histology3,4
Pancreatic mosaicism for trisomy 12
▪ Unreported previously → significance unknown
▪ Embryonic lethal when not in mosaic form
▪ A patient with trisomy 12 in 25% of peripheral
blood cells has been reported
• mild dysmorphic features at birth
• normal development at 6 months of age5
Congenital Hyperinsulinism due to pancreatic
mosaicism for paternal uniparental disomy
(pUPD) of all chromosome 11, with the additional
finding of pancreatic mosaicism for trisomy 12.
▪ A term male (birthweight 3.7kg, 80th percentile)
with diazoxide-unresponsive congenital
hyperinsulinism (CHI) was born to unaffected
parents
• natural conception
• non-consanguineous and no family history
▪ He did not have the cardinal Beckwith-
Wiedemann spectrum1 features of
• macroglossia, exomphalos or
lateralised overgrowth
▪ He did not have the suggestive Beckwith-
Wiedemann spectrum1 features of
• polyhydramnios, macrosomia
• facial naevus simplex, ear creases or pits
• umbilical hernia, diastasis recti
• nephromegaly or hepatomegaly
▪ Placenta was not retained to assess for size or
mesenchymal dysplasia1
▪ A targeted massively parallel sequencing (MPS)
panel identified a heterozygous maternally
inherited KATP channel ABCC8 variant
(c.1332+4del) - minimal splicing effect predicted
• classified as likely benign
▪ Intensive medical support was required and he
could not be medically maintained with a trial of
continuous subcutaneous octreotide
▪ [18F]-DOPA PET/CT imaging of the pancreas
• unexpected finding of focal increased uptake
in the pancreatic distal body/tail junction
(Figure 1A)
▪ Histopathology of the subtotal pancreatectomy
(day 22) showed (Figure 2)
• focal adenomatous hyperplasia
➢ trabeculae and islet nests composed of
❖ regular, oval or columnar cells
❖ lacking atypia or conspicuous nuclear
enlargement
➢ adjacent lobules had a relatively normal
distribution of islets and exocrine acini
➢ chromogranin highlighted the islets
➢ aberrant p57 expression in islet cytoplasm
❖ nuclear in normal islets and in diffuse
hyperinsulinism
❖ would be negative in focal CHI due to a
pathogenic paternal KATP channel variant
▪ Within 2 weeks, medical support was again
required with residual, increased [18F]-DOPA
pancreatic uptake (Figure 1B)
▪ A second resection (5% left in-situ) (day 36)
achieved normoglycaemia
▪ At 24 months of age
▪ normoglycaemic with age-appropriate feeding
(exocrine pancreatic supplements)
▪ normal ultrasonographic appearance of liver
and kidneys
▪ normal neurodevelopmental progress
Louise S Conwell1,2, James R Harraway3, Mark G Williams3, Christopher Joy3, Bonnie M Scurry4, Kevin Lee2,5, Craig McBride2,6, Tony Huynh1,2,7, Carolyn GL Ng7, Sarah E Flanagan.
1 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 2 School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Molecular Pathology Department, Mater Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 Anatomical
Pathology, Pathology Queensland, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 5 Department of Nuclear Medicine and Queensland PET Service, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland, Australia 6 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Queensland Children’s Hospital,
Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 7 Chemical Pathology Department, Mater Health, Brisbane, Australia 8 Department of Paediatrics, Bundaberg Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 9 Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom
Beckwith-Wiedemann
syndrome (BWS)▪ A multisystem human genomic imprinting
disorder with variable clinical expression and
complex molecular aetiology1
▪ An international consensus statement has
introduced the concept of
Beckwith-Wiedemann spectrum (BWSp)1
▪ Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia is
common (30-60%) and usually resolves
within a few days
• persistent, severe cases refractory to
medical management are usually
associated with the paternal uniparental
disomy (pUPD11) molecular defect
➢ majority do not have a paternal
inactivating KATP channel variant but
those that do have even more
refractory hypoglycaemia
Case
A. Focal moderate-intense [18F]-DOPA uptake at the
pancreatic body/tail junction (arrows), consistent with site
of hypermetabolic tissue, with a faint focus of [18F]-DOPA
uptake at the uncinate process which is more likely
physiologic.
B. Focal moderate-intense [18F]-DOPA uptake at the
subtotal pancreatectomy resection margin (arrows),
suggesting that significant residual hypermetabolic tissue
had not been resected
Methods
References
1. Brioude F et al. Nat Rev Endocrinol, 2018; 14(4):229-249
2. Kalish JM et al. Clin Cancer Res 2017; 23(13):e115-e122
3. Flanagan SE et al. Front Endocrinol, 2011 Nov 2;2:66
4. Kalish JM et al. J Med Genet, 2016; 53(1):53-61
5. Hong B et al. Am J Med Genet A, 2017; 173(6):1681-1686
Objectives▪ Extended genetic analyses in the context of
• Congenital Hyperinsulinism
• focal increased [18F]-DOPA PET/CT pancreatic
uptake and
• atypical histology
Presented at the Annual European Society of Paediatric
Endocrinology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, September 2019.
A/Prof Louise S. Conwell, [email protected]
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Figure 1
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A. Focal adenomatous hyperplasia (arrow),
normal pancreas () H&E,10x
B. Islet hyperplasia, H&E, 20x
C. Chromogranin expression in hyperplastic islets (arrow),
normal islets (), 4x
D. p57 expressed in hyperplastic islets (arrow) and
normal islets (), 4x
Figure 2
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C D
P1-065Louise Conwell DOI: 10.3252/pso.eu.58ESPE.2019
Fetal, neonatal endocrinology and metabolism (to include hypoglycaemia)